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(No Model.) G. SKATULLA. TYPE AND MATRIX.

' No. 543,272. Patented July 23, 1895.

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ATTORNEYS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT V OFFICE.

COELESTIN SKATULLA, OF BROOKLYN, AS$IGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANK SCHMIDT,NEW YORK, N. Y.

TYPE AND MATRIX.

vXE'ECIIFIIKEATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 543,272, datedJuly 23, 1895.

Application filed April 4, 1895. Serial No. 544,458 (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, COELESTIN SKATULLA, a subject of the Emperor ofAustria-Hungary, at present residing in Brooklyn, in the county 5 ofKings and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in. Types and Matrices, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to linotype-machines; I and its object is toprovide a new and improved method for forming the matrices in a verysimple and eifective manner.

The method consists principally in first casting short letters andassembling the same into I words, with space-bars between the words toform the proper length of line, and then casting a backing on the linetounite with the short letters and to fill the spaces between the words.

The invention further consists in a linematrix comprising single shorttypes and a backing cast on the said types to obtain the proper heightand fill the spaces of adjacent words in a line.

The invention also consists of certain parts and details andcombinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter andthen pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying o drawings, forming a part ofthis specification,

in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts inall the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a line of type as ordinarily set byhand. Fig. 2 is an end 5 elevation of a single ordinary type. Fig. 3 isa side elevation of a series of type-bodies,

showing, my improvements. Fig. 4 is a cross section of the same on theline 4 4 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a line of type- 0 bodies set up withspace-bars between the words, the space-bars being shown in section onthe line 5 5 of Fig. 6. f Fig. 6 is a plan View of the same. Fig. 7 is across-section of the same on the line 7 7 of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 isasectional front elevation of the same with the upper space-barsremoved... Fig. 9 is a like view of the same with the backing cast on.Fig. 10

is across-section of the same on the line 10 10 of Fig. 9. ,Fig. 11 is asimilar view of the same on the line 11 11 of Fig. 12 and with thespacebars removed, and Fig. 12 is a sectional side elevation of theimproved matrix.

As illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, the ordinary type A is set up in theusual manner to form a line, with quads B between the individual Words.In order to form a line of type or a matrix according to myimprovements, I provide short type-bodies O, each formed at one end withthe usual type character and at its other end with a shank C, as shownin Fig. 4, and these type-bodies are set up i-n-a line with transversespace-bars D D between the words. After this is done a backing C is caston all the shanks of the bodies in the whole line to make the latter theproper height. The part O of the backing passes into the space betweenthe words of the line, as plainly illustrated in Fig.12, it beingunderstood that the space-bars are but temporarily employed and form nopart,of the line after the backing integrally unites the several bodiesforming the line. Thus the matrix formed consists of individual shorttype-bodies O and a backing G which makes the type the proper height,and also integrally unites the several individual type-bodies in theline.

In order to cast the individual short typebodies 0, I provide a suitablemachine, similar to the linotype-machines nowin use and having moldswith adjustable side walls to cast the type-body O to the thicknessrequired by the letter it represents. The several short type-bodies Oare assembled automatically with two single space-bars D and D betweenthe adjacent words and to make the proper length of line, and then theupper space-bars D are removed and the backing C is cast upon the set-uptype-bars to engage the shanks O and to-fill the spaces between thewordsup to the lowermost space-bars D. (See Fig. 9.) The barsare then removedand the matrix is finished.

Now, by the arrangement described the backing (J firmly unites thebodies 0 with each other, and also holds the words apart by the fillingO so that the matrix is of proper length. It is understood that suitablemachines are constructed to carry into effect the above-described methodfor forming amatrix, and such machines will form the subjectmatter ofseparate applications hereafter to the spaces between the words,substantially be filed.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent: make the matrix the proper height, at the 1.The herein-described method for forming same time filling the spacesbetween the words matrices, consistingin first casting short type formedby the short type, substantially as and placing the same one alongsidethe other, shown and described. to form words separated by space bars,then COELESTIN SKATULLA. removing one set of space bars, and finallycasting a backing on the said short type, to make the matrix the properheight, and to fill as shown and described.

2. A line matrix, comprising single short type, and a backing cast onthe said type, to

Witnesses:

THEO. G. HOSTER, J N0. M. BITTER.

